I know I said I will read more fiction books (over non-fiction ones) this year but the inviting cover of this humurous memoir on womanhood and all other adventures and misadventures in finding the real meaning of the phrase “strong woman” nudged me to go ahead and pick this one as my next chill read.
Reading one book at a time has never been my habit. So while I was reading another non-fiction book – A Fifty-Year Silence by Miranda Richmond Mouillot – I was also basking in the hilarious storytelling in I’d Rather Wear Pajamas that was written and brought to existence by Chelsea Walker Flagg.
Flagg wrote this memoir in a casual, personal tone reminiscent of the way you talk to your dearest of friends. She is real, funny, and honest in this book and I can’t help but relate to her journey of considering ‘lawyering’ as the absolute way of defining the phrase strong woman.
Flagg takes us with her as she began her story telling readers about how her life moved from being a single woman, who moved from one state to the next to figure out what the universe has in store for her, to being wife and mother of three, who have accepted her flaws and weaknesses and learned to embrace them with loads of laughter and lots of love.
She has a way of making her stories come alive from the pages of the book and then lets you become part of the story because her words and the experiences she shared are very realistic. She did not mask her inability to cook, her initial failures at gardening and sewing, and the battle she fought within her.
The last chapters of this book talked about how she cruised through pregnancy to birth and realizing that motherhood has made her a strong woman. She finally found the meaning that she was looking for for so long.
I found this book as a breather in between reading two rather serious memoirs and autobiographies. This is the kind of book you want to read when you’re in the restroom because, trust me, it won’t give you cerebral constipation. It’s a light, chill, relaxing read that you won’t even notice that you already reached the end of the book.
Major applause and credit to Kelly Angelovic, who made the eye catching cover of this nook, whic made me choose this over other books in Story Cartel’s long list.
In the field of memoirs and autobiographies, I will give this one eight out of 10 stars. There were chapters that I found boring and unnecessary but overall this book is the kind that will invite you to turn off your brain and just go with the humurous writing of its author.
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